Chesepeake Bay Preservation : LoCo proposal

Here is the draft overlay for most of Broadlands.

 

exrook, where did you get that picture from? I'd like to see it a little bigger.

Thanks.

 

You can go here and get as close a look as you would like to your property or the whole community

http://gisinter1.loudoun.gov/weblogis/default.htm Once on this page enter your address under the search; and then under Map layers/Environmental select Draft RPA Screening Tool . This will show which lots and common areas could be affected.

Staci

 

Thanks. I had been using the "Draft Chesapeake Bay Area" and not the "Draft RPA Screening Tool". Using the latter, I see that the front edge of my property is darkened and quite a few houses on my street are entirely shaded.

 

Certainly this effects more than just Broadlands and Brambleton. I wonder why we haven't seen one of the local papers latch onto this and run a story?

 

Leesburg Today has.
Washington Post called me about it a while ago, but I guess they decided not to run a story.

 

I liked the one in the Loudoun Independent where you said something about how people can put down all kinds of chemicals on their yard but might have trouble putting up a swing set.

 

Permits to put up a swingsets is probably a stretch but I see the point of the quote. Although I would like to see this proposal get passed - it irks me that it's being proposed years after development has occurred.

 

If this is passed by the BOS, does it take effect immediately or will there be a phase-in period?

 

That was me that was quoted. And it is a FACT that if passed with no changes, and your lot is in the seaward 50 feet of the RPA, you will not to spend thousands of dollars in fees and have a public hearing in order to put up a swingset.............but feel free to dump all the pesticudes and fertilizers you want on the yard. No problem there!

 

Please clarify, I'm confused...


"....you will not to spend thousands of dollars in fees.....

 

Good overview in the Loudoun Indy that landed in my mailbox today.

http://www.loudouni.com/news/2010-05-14/regulations-would-reach-backyards

 

Perennial Flow Determination: $500 - $1500
Wetland Delineation: $500 - $1500
Wetland Survey: $300 - $750
Jurisdictional Determination: $150 - $250
RPA Buffer Boundary Delineation $250 - $350
Major Water Quality Analysis: Unknown, but required
Tree Cover Inventory: $300 - $1000
Planting Plan $300 - $700
Erosion & Sediment Control Plan: $300 - $1200
Representation for formal exception process: $1000 - $2000

Add it all up. A few fees may not be required, such as tree inventory if there are no trees on your lot.

 

So again why does your post say you will NOT to spend thousands of dollars??

 

Sheesh! No forgiveness for a typo!

 

You'd think I could have figured that out... thanks!